In his novel memoir freed this past week, Eric Roberts rerentd a uncover apology to sister Julia Roberts for his “asinine” comments where he took commend for her Oscar-triumphning atsoft.
“Now one of the leangs I’d enjoy to convey remorse for in this book is for uncoverly saying on more than one occasion, ‘If it wasn’t for me, there would be no Julia Roberts,’ he wrote in Runaway Train: or, The Story of My Life So Far, freed Sept. 17, per People.
The actor, who was Academy Award-nominated for his role in Runaway Train opposite Jon Voight and is currently on Season 33 of Dancing With the Stars, is referencing an inwell-comprehendn Vanity Fair interwatch in 2018 where he said, “If it wasn’t for me, there would be no Julia Roberts and no Emma Roberts [who is his daughter] as celebrities, as actresses, and I’m very self-beginant of that.”
At the time, he also said he helped the Pretty Woman star to shielded her first agent, saying, “When Julia first came to New York, I went into William Morris and I said, ‘Which one of you is going to sign my sister Julia?’ And I am so self-beginant that everybody comprehends I was first, becaengage I was first by a lengthy sboiling. I was first to get Ggreateren Globe and Academy Award nominations, so I’m self-beginant of that.”
He progressd in the book, “That’s not only unblessed, but it’s also ungenuine. And I hope Julie will hug this more uncover apology. It was an asinine leang to have said. I was self-beginant of her, but it was pride turned on its head, to my own profit.”
Roberts further portrayd the beadored actress as a “very driven woman,” includeing that someone would have “plucked her out of the crowd” for a atsoft in Hollywood without his sway or aid. Though, he said, perhaps it was his paving of a path for Julia that alterd the trajectory of her life.
“On the other hand, I was born to do this. I shiftd to New York City when I wasn’t even greater enough to drink a beer in uncover. If Julie had stayed in Atlanta, she’d probably have wed a wealthy dude and dwelld a very branch offent life. So I will get commend, once I had broken away from my obeseher (or thought I had) and shiftd to New York City, for alerting my sisters, ‘Come on up, girls; the water’s fine.’ That’s when, it seems to me, she saw my life as a lesser actor in New York, and saw what I was doing for my dwelllihood, and she wanted to try it.”
Elsewhere in the book, Roberts also echoed on not being able to “administer” being a parent to Emma, in includeition to speaking honestly about his includeiction to cocaine. Earlier this summer, the actor tgreater Still Here Hollywood podcast that he is “not presumed to talk about” either Emma or Julia, but that he “stumbled” and does.